I will never read all of the booksinvolved in this new Crisis but I'm tempted to buy that Perez thing out of nostalgia --that and because I love E2. Looks fun. Hopefully someone here will eventually spoil the entire Infinite Crisis and reboot thing for me. DC will never repair the damage they did anyway.
Has Paul Levitz written E2 stories before?
The Perez interview associated with that preview had something educational for me: details about Perez' cut on Teen Titans merch. He gets 10% of everything DC gets. Nice. Who knew those 3 characters from Teen Titans would ever be pop culture products?
Speaking of the Titans cartoon, not only does it provide Perez a revenue stream (“Basically, whatever DC gets, Marv and I each get ten percent. It gets to a nice amount when you start talking about toys, the upcoming videogame, and of course, it’s pro-rated, depending on the characters we created, but that’s pretty much everybody except Robin and Beast Boy”), but it’s also earned him a legion of new fans.
“I can go to virtually any grammar school in the country and say that I co-created, Cyborg, Raven, and Starfire, and I’m a rock star to a whole new generation of kids, who look at me, wide-eyed, with open mouths,” Perez said. “When I used to do appearances in schools or other non-comic specific function, I would usually say I wrote and drew Wonder Woman, even though Wonder Woman’s sales nowhere equaled the New Teen Titans, but more people knew who she was. Now, I just say, Teen Titans, and most people know what I’m talking about, or, if they don’t, their kids can tell them.
Who gets 10 percent of Robin and Beast Boy merch? Who created Beast Boy?